Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 193 · 40 questions

Creator's tip (Many pictures, fast): Animation = many still pictures (frames), each a little different, shown quickly. Persistence of vision: the eye holds each picture for a moment, so fast pictures blend into movement. Pictures each second = pictures on a zoetrope drum × spins each second.

1. 1.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
3. 3.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a computer-built model (c) flipbook pages (d) a virtual 3D world
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 33 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
6. 6.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the eye blends them (c) the pictures are wet (d) magic ink
9. 9.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a flipbook (c) a zoetrope (d) a storyboard
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a road sign (d) a flipbook
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) persistence of vision (c) squash and stretch (d) colour mixing
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a comic book page (d) a spinning zoetrope
17. 17.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) it plays backwards (c) the colours fade (d) the movement looks jumpy
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
22. 22.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a stop-motion film (c) a comic book page (d) a video game scene
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
25. 25.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a virtual 3D world
26. 26.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) an empty cage (b) two birds (c) the bird in the cage (d) nothing at all
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a framed painting
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
29. 29.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
30. 30.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a flipbook (c) a framed painting (d) a greeting card
33. 33.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a stop-motion film (c) a greeting card (d) a printed photo
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) a digital 3D character
37. 37.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) frame (c) font (d) poster
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
39. 39.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) only sound
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a printed photo

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